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The Paris Bourse opened the week and the month of February, down from 0.48% to 3721.66 points in the wake of the decline on Wall Street Friday. The same applies to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange decline of 0.38% at 5587.5 points, and that of London which yields 0.38% to 5168.64 points. After a week punctuated by a sharp increase from 1.37% to 3.739.46 points, investors should be preparing to take their profits.

Markets were awaiting major publications in the United States. Around 12 o'clock, the President of the United States, Barack Obama has proposed a 2011 budget of 3.834 billion dollars. The White House said Monday that the draft budget for next fiscal year (October 2010-September 2011) showed a deficit of 1.267 billion dollars, down 19% due to higher expected revenue.In the afternoon, indicators follow overseas spending and household income for the month of January (1430), construction costs for the month of December (16 hours), the ISM index of manufacturing activity January (16 hours) payday loan . On Friday, the U.S. GDP figures for the fourth quarter, came out up 5.7%.

The results season of American companies continues its course on Monday with those of Exxon Mobil, the world's oil.

In France, prices for production in French industry decreased by 2.9% in 2009, a decline limited to 1.3% for foreign markets, according to figures released Monday by the INSEE. In all markets (French and exports), the producer prices are down 2.4% a year, says the National Institute of Statistics.In December 2008, prices remained stable (0%) in the industry for the French market.

Sales of new vehicles surged 14% in January by the Committee of French manufacturers (CCFA).

Side currencies and commodities, oil off again on the rise (+0.22% to 73.21 dollars), while the euro strengthens against the dollar (+0.25% to 1.3899 dollars).

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On Thursday the seven "wise men" of Arcep, met in college under the chairmanship of Jean-Ludovic Silicani in their premises near the Montparnasse Tower, will take a decision fraught with consequences. They should decide to award the fourth mobile telephone license in Free, having scrutinized the record of some 80 000 pages. Their decision will be officially known Friday morning. After a call for nominations, one has answered this Free.

If he gets the license, pay to the Free State, from January 2010, a check for 240 million euros for the price of the license, and will market its first subscription once it has deployed its network. It will not be before early 2012.

This decision is very important because it is the first major upset of the mobile market, which has hardly changed since the arrival of Bouygues Telecom in 1996.Meanwhile, 96% of French are equipped with the mobile has become an object indispensable for ordinary life.

For French, this increased competition should result in lower prices, better packages, technical innovations. A dynamic that all competitors should follow to avoid being left behind. The arrival of Free should benefit all consumers, whether or not customers Free.

That is the calculation of the Premier, enamored of technology and anxious purchasing power of French, who personally argued the case for months. In any case the promise of Xavier Niel, the main shareholder of Free and strategy director, who has promised to halve the average bill for a household of three people.A savings of about 1 000 euros per year.

Competitors on the defensive

The efforts of Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom to prevent the arrival of this new competitor will be defeated. Certainly, they have filed complaints with various authorities in Brussels and the Council of State, which are still ongoing. All three went to the obvious: Free arrives and nothing will stop it. At most, they hope to recognize that the Free State has benefited by granting the license for 240 million euros, when each had to pay 619 million euros. But the outcome of those complaints is uncertain.

Meanwhile, everyone is preparing their own way. SFR merged with Neuf Cegetel, and is judged and ready to confront the offensive. "The merger SFR Neuf is our best response to the arrival of Free" repeated Frank Esser, Chairman of SFR.

Orange, who was on the defensive for months, rates of speech with the arrival of new orders to number two, Stéphane Richard. "My priority is to prepare the best Orange on his arrival in loyalty to our customers and by increasing innovation," he said in an interview with Le Figaro.

As for Bouygues Telecom, has launched Ideo, first offer quadruplay market last June, and reaping new Internet subscribers. Meanwhile, it seeks to reduce its fixed costs in anticipation of a price war announced by Free. Olivier Roussat, its director general, said "a hiring freeze since announcing the launch of the call for applications.

"Subscription, price, services … the new operator in six issues

French households have become even more confidence. Their morale even accelerates its rise in November according to latest figures from INSEE. And despite the very poor unemployment figures in France, published Thursday by the Ministry of Economy.

The indicator that summarizes this view and goes back to 4 points from October. The indicator leaves the historically low levels where it had fallen since late 2007 to return to the previous values of the floor last fifteen years in the hollow of 1995-1996 and 2005.

The views of households on the economic situation, which had hit a historic low in the summer of 2008 to -48 points, had subsequently begun a slow recovery phase and marked by a few shots off.In November, with this "improvement", he moved to -30 points, says the National Institute of Statistics.

Statistics rather encouraging in a few weeks of Christmas and New year period during which the French consume far. While Americans seem less inclined to spend than other years – the shopping season starts this Friday – French households also felt more appropriate to make major purchases, such as winning 5 points in a month.

The fear facing a future increase in unemployment continues to recede, but much more slowly than in recent months.

As for inflation, households continue as they have for more than six months, thinking that prices should increase only slightly in the coming months.

Unparalleled success is won parActivision Blizzard, the world's largest video game publishing, controlled by Vivendi. The title Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the sixth episode of the series, marketed since November 10, has generated "revenues of 550 million dollars worldwide in the first five days of launch." In France also, the sales are amazing with 376 000 units and revenue of 25.5 million euros in one week, according to research firm GfK. In the world and the Hexagon, this is a record for the entertainment industry, all activities.

The war game, very realistic images worthy of Hollywood movies, has pushed revenues to film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Half ($ 394 million) or those of the DVD Welcome to the Chti's in France (17, 1 million euros) over a comparable period.The latest version of Call of Duty has surpassed the previous record of video game racing cars GTA IV (24.1 million euros in France, 500 million dollars in the world with 6 million copies), marketed in 2008. In units, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has already been sold 8 million copies.

The breakthrough is not over. "Sales could exceed 15 million units sold by the end of 2009," said Jean-Bernard Levy, Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi, at the Forum d'Avignon which was named the Gotha Culture and Media. Starting this year, Call of Duty could achieve a turnover of one billion dollars.The margin would be considerable investment for the game is estimated at 200 million dollars.

No under 18 years

To meet this challenge, Bobby Kotick, Activision's boss, and Mike Griffith, head of publishing, do not skimp on resources. The game uses tested recipes: very realistic images, the voices of characters in the game played by celebrities such as actor Bill Murray and singer of the rap group 50 Cents, a story very close, developed by the best writers of the time as one of those in the television series NCIS. Finally, to reach a wide audience, the game is designed for game consoles Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions. Main downside: the title, very violent, is banned at least 18 years.

The model Vivendi proves his strength to face the crisis

Showered by the publication of unemployment to 10.2% in the United States in October, the European and American markets had immediately swung into the red. But the image of what happens on Wall Street, the CAC 40 has quickly found the way up, offering a second reading, less negative than before, the employment figures. The index of the feature takes place in Paris 0.26% to 3718 points to 16.15.

Thursday, stock markets worldwide have been well oriented due to figures released by the U.S. Department of Labor Productivity in the country.

In addition to the monthly report on employment in the U.S., markets also watch the publication of wholesale inventories in September.

Values follow

Lafarge is attacked (-4.5%). The French group has released financial results Friday down sharply in the third quarter.Net income is recorded down 38% year on year to 404 million euros while sales fell 20% to 4.25 billion euros. These results were slightly below analyst expectations.

L'Oreal is sanctioned (-1.46%) after the publication of a revenue deemed disappointing. For its part CapGemini is still undergoing clearances (-2.49%). Several brokers have changed their views following the quarterly judged below investor expectations.

Conversely, Hermes International stands (2.30%). The luxury group has for its part issued Friday sales up 5% at constant rates in the third quarter, to 452.1 million euros. The group said its goal of stable sales in 2009 could be exceeded if the trend continues this year.

Values M6 (6.41%) at the highest for two years and TF1 (4.23%) were also searched.The audiovisual group M6 has exceeded expectations by recording a marked improvement in advertising revenue chain and strong growth of its business diversification. In particular, M6 was confirmed as the month of September showed the first signs of an improving advertising market with stronger demand from advertisers in some sectors the consumer in particular.

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